Is Missionary Kelly Event Worth Risking 6 Million Jews? (10 minutes)

1:42Anybody, you know, some people went against me. They saw last week's lecture. They say, oh, you're saying Lashon Hara, oh, you're a Rasha, oh, you're this, oh, you're that. A few people, most people, Baruch Hashem, saw the truth and are supporting and are even doing more on their own. But nonetheless, there are definitely a few naysayers that are saying the opposite. Am I getting extra money from somebody? No. In reality, I get hurt more than everybody else about this. I live there. I live in the community. I've been going to that synagogue for two and a half years. I now have to move. I dread moving. I don't think anyone actually likes moving, but I actually hate it. It's a big waste of time and money. Money I care less for, but time I do. I have to move now. I'm not earning anything from this. There's no money, no fame. I only encounter problems because of all this. Why am I doing all of this?

2:57Because the problem is much, much bigger and riskier and more dangerous than I even mentioned myself in last week's lecture. And I believe that very few actually see it. Because Rabbi Goldberg is not a regular rabbi. He's not your average rabbi who's leading a kehillah of 50 or 100 families or 50 or 100 people. He is leading one of the biggest kehillot in America. It's almost 1,000 families. On top of that, he's an Av Beit Din, the head of a Beit Din. There are two major Batei Din in Florida. He is one of them. Florida is practically bigger than Israel. He has control over a significant part of that. He is not your average rabbi. He is very well known and very well connected, whether it be with the government or different types of organizations. He is a likable guy.

4:19I don't have anything against him, despite what anyone thinks. I think he's committing a horrendous aveirah. I don't have anything personally against him, though. I hate the sin, not the sinner. Whether it's this or another previous aveirah, the point is, this is a problem. I didn't have a problem with him before that. That's why I went to him personally, privately. The problem is not me against him. It's not like I want his job. Even if they offered it to me, I wouldn't accept it. I don't want to be a rabbi of a kehillah. I never did. I never want to be. Not that I'm even qualified. But the point is that it has nothing to do with anything personal. It has nothing to do with any self-interest. It has to do with the only thing I could say that I maybe had in the business world that was better than some. That made me a decent businessman. Decent. I was able to see the future. I was able to see the nolad. Not obviously future like prophecy, not a prophet. But I was able to see what is going to happen as a result of certain things happening before even those certain things happened. Whether it's predicting markets or marketplaces or consumers or laws and so on.

5:41Nothing's changed. The fact is that because Goldberg is such a prominent Rabbi, bringing Matthew Kelly, a well-known missionary that no one can doubt now because we even have a video online with him saying, "I'm a missionary." And he's training missionaries and he wants to change the world. You don't undo a missionary. You don't put a missionary on hold. You're always a missionary when you're a missionary. And even Goldberg himself had a lecture a few years ago about Christianity, saying we have to distance ourselves from missionaries, from people that are idol worshippers. He said it himself. He forgot, but he said it. Now, because he's such a big rabbi, this is a big deal. If he was one of his little guys, if he was Shabtai that works there, I wouldn't even care. I'd try. I may even be mentioned in a lecture or write a letter or something. A day, two days, I'd finish. Because he's affecting himself. No one knows who he is. And no one knows the Kehillah. It's a small Kehillah. But when you have an Av Beit Din make something...

7:01you have yourself a serious problem, because every lenient, Modern Orthodox, semi-Orthodox, sometimes Orthodox, this Orthodox or that Orthodox, or Reform, or Conservative, or whatever — every single shul in America, at the very least America if not the entire world, will see that a missionary came to a shul, but not just any shul; they came to a shul run by one of the top Dayanim in America, or in Florida at the very least. And they're going to use that as a heter. They're going to use that as if this is allowed. And what you're going to have is you're going to have Matthew Kelly and his compadres swamp all of America and pretty much do a tour of every single synagogue in America over the next six to twelve months, God forbid. Why? Hey, the Dayan did it. If I did something like that, no one cares who I am.

8:12He's crazy, he's a meshuga, he's a fanatic, he's this, he's that. Who is he bechlal? They're going to mention a million and a half things about me. But when you're an av beit din, you're a dayan, you're politically connected. Moshe, same thing. It's like we got on Har Sinai to bring missionaries to synagogues. It might as well be. So even if Rabbi Goldberg is very confident, very confident that no one in his kehillah is going to be affected negatively by Matthew Kelly and his missionary tactics, he still can't do this. Number one, it's against halacha. And we've proven that even from his own video, aside from our own. But aside from that, his kehilla is not exactly as strong as he says it is because I've already overheard several people asking about Christianity over the last two years of being there. There has been interest in Christianity already in the last two years. And last but not least,

9:36Are you really going to take a risk with six million Jews in America? It's a good question.